A piece of legislation that would prohibit states from enacting GMO-labeling laws, as well as make it difficult for companies wishing to voluntarily label GMOs, is expected to hit the Senate floor for a vote today. The Senate vote has been dreaded by the Right to Know movement ever since it passed the House of Representatives 275–150 in mid-July.

Authored by Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), the bill has been labeled the “Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act” by healthy food advocates because it eliminates a person’s right to know exactly what is in their food.

The newly “introduced legislation [is] intended to preempt state GMO labeling laws – and it’s expected to come to a floor vote TOMORROW,” said the Environmental Working Group in an action alert email sent on March 15, 2015.

The clock is ticking

“This is our LAST CHANCE to stand up for GMO labeling and keep Big Food and Monsanto’s allies in Congress from robbing us of our right to know,” warned EWG in the email. “Americans should have the same right as citizens of 64 other countries to know whether or not their food contains genetically engineered ingredients.”

You can take action now by sending a message to the Senate and voicing your support for GMO-labeling here.

Don’t be too happy anyone and remember what happened with CISPA. Political whore and alleged Democrat, Monsanto Sen. Debbie Stabenow, has vowed the bill MUST be passed. You need to keep an eye on her because she is as neoliberal and against regular people as any crapitalist neocon. She’s getting ready to cash out and join Big Agra or the USDA as soon as she completes her political poisoning of America.

In terms of the real world, we need to remind our supermarkets daily we expect readable GMO labels regardless of the law. Some are catching onto this already as people are voting with their dollars.